Word: discs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jimmy was driving a truck to support his family and idly plunking away at his uke in the evenings ("I dream-I go 'bonk, bonk, bonk'-I just fool around"), when he became inspired by the high wit of a local rock 'n' roll disc jockey named Red Blanchard and enrolled in a 96-lesson musical correspondence course ("I learned to read music in the first ten and quit"). He bought a tape recorder and started strumming his own tunes, singing the lyrics aloud in an adenoidal tenor. "All I do," he says, "is just take...
...shoe brakes were not designed for that demanding course. The best of Fangio's competitors had cars that seemed better fitted. Former British Champion Mike Hawthorn was at the wheel of a big (20 cc. more displacement than the Ferrari), D-type Jaguar fitted out with husky disc brakes, a type relatively unaffected by heat. Current British Champ Stirling Moss was driving a light (2.9-liter), cat-quick Aston Martin, also with disc brakes. Both British teams were superbly organized in the pits. The Aston crew came complete with a practical physicist. Working with his slide rule...
Actual photographic reproductions of the line is done through a spinning glass matrix disk, bearing the type characters. On one side of this disc is a light, and on the other the film. Once a line is completed, the light starts picking out the right characters on the disc and projecting them on to the film. This is a very rapid process: the disc on the latest Photon machine, the "200" series, spins through eight revolutions per second, picking out one character each time...
...first coined by a San Francisco disc jockey **occurs...
...Jazz in a Stable" disc, which features the first group to play at the Harvard New Jazz Society, is devoted to progressive and experimental music. It will be followed by a Dixieland record, "Jazz at Columbus Ave.", featuring the Johnny Windhurst quintet with Jim Andrews '58 at the piano. Later in the year the company will release "Jazz for Harvard Squares", a record angled at students who dislike jazz...